Want to make a difference?
Suit up. Show up. Sit in the chair in a meeting and listen to God talk to you through the others speaking of their transformation stories in the room.
Make a difference.
Sometimes the quickest way out of my own head is to help somebody else. And, sometimes, that help is just showing up and sitting there. Somebody is counting on it. I am counting on it.
Last night in a meeting the topic of sharing was about what tools we use to keep ourselves sober. Somebody said they just keep coming to meetings. Another woman said, “I count on seeing Heidi when I come in here. It is comforting to know she is still here after 6,850 days of being sober. Sometimes I wonder why she is still here after all of that time?”
Believe it or not, sometimes I wonder the same thing. I was touched by what she said and it can be true for you, too. When I hear you talk, it may be exactly what I needed to hear that day in the meeting, just because YOU showed up—and I did, too. You don’t know who you are helping that day just by sitting in the chair. You are being of service by showing somebody in the room how to walk this path with others.
At the end of our meetings we hold hands and we say the serenity prayer or the Lord’s prayer and at the end, we chant, “Keep coming back. It works.”
My spin on that chant that I add and say out loud is, “Keep coming back. It’s working.”
It’s about the process. It is continuous. I need to keep showing up for myself and for you!
Show up.
Make a difference.
It’s working.
“The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin new each morning.”
Lamentations 3:22-23
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